Vol 53 No 2 | NIGERIA Sanusi hits out at subsidy racket 20th January 2012 Almost alone among his colleagues in government, Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Sanusi Lamido Aminu Sanusi has made a credible case for the removal of fuel subsidies*. He...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 7 | NIGERIACHINA Oiling the gears 20th May 2010 Beijing’s biggest African offer yet is a risky gambit to gain a major stake in the upstream and downstream sectors of Nigeria’s oil business Equal measures of optimism and scepticism greeted China’s announcement of an agreement to build three oil refineries worth US$23 billion. The terms of the memorandum of understanding are clear; the...
Vol 63 No 14 | NIGERIA Atiku and Tinubu clash on the economy 7th July 2022 Spiralling prices, public debt and joblessness make living standards the top issue in the presidential race A month after their emergence as presidential candidates, the economic programmes of Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar extolling the virtues of untrammelled market economics face more serious scrutiny...
Vol 40 No 4 | NIGERIA It's the economy 19th February 1999 Amid the campaign razzamatazz, politicians are ignoring the looming economic disaster In the party conventions and in the lobbies of Abuja’s smart hotels, the talk is of who should be the new civilian president - and of how to...
Vol 52 No 5 | NIGERIA So where did the money go? 4th March 2011 Obscure accounts uncover a black hole in state finances as politicians hit the campaign trail promising to end corruption Opposition parties claim that over US$27 billion is missing from state accounts, managed by the People’s Democratic Party government under President Goodluck Jonathan and his late predecessor, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Coming just...